Blasé Boylan

In all the reading I've done on how we got to where we are, and why Trumpism rose to where it is, I feel as if what's often missed are the two key reasons all this has happened. A thread. 1/

If Americans can go to jail for lying to Congress, then why don’t congressmen go to jail for lying to Americans?

See where I'm going with this?

Congress passed a law forcing new sanctions and tariffs on Russia. Two days before it kicked in, Trump signed an order waiving it. Read that twice. Then ask who the law was for. Trump is a Russian asset.

This!

End all contracts to Elon Musk! We just learned Musk is spending $400 million to buy Congress this midterm for GOP. When Democrats win House they must investigate Musk. He receives billions in US tax dollars. Is there waste, fraud and abuse? Is his citizenship valid? My video youtu.be/49K7-O2VPwc

They’re going to force the men to get gender-affirming care.

Chuck Schumer is absolutely not the person to lead the Dems in the Senate. Not only is he an abject coward, he's in corporate pockets, and he supports the genocide in Gaza. On November 3rd, when Dems take back the Senate, Schumer must be immediately replaced.

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

ALL OF THIS.

Miranda Devine of the NY Post (an Australian) always has my vote for Most Desperate Trump Water Carrier. "Flugate!" Meanwhile, Kean and McConnell absent for months, Trump's 2025 Labor Day disappearance (stroke likely), etc.

Fun Fact: Harm is not just physical

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Many attacks on Mamdani since September have come from Israel. Influence operations also exploit fringe leftists to manufacture division and discredit movements. Sometimes your militantly anti-state, theory-quoting, revolution-preaching, purity-testing Marxist - Maoist comrade is the state itself.

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social This aged well.

The pro-life people are giddy about streaming an execution. It sounds counterintuitive but it is just another Thursday.

Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.

I fact-checked this and it’s true: www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...

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Don’t raise your sons to be rapists, or to aid those who do. Teach them to intervene.

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Do you know who are the most precise scholars on the distinctions between a genocide and war crimes. The prosecutors at the ICC. Their indictment charges Netanyahu, rightly, with war crimes up to and including crimes against humanity. So not apologists. You know what charge they did not level? Yup.

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.

Our tax dollars are being spent to indulge the fantasies and to soothe the fragile ego of a narcissistic sociopath who is falling deeper and deeper into psychosis.

I am all for loking at these options.